IceCube detector finds neutrinos from the Milky Way for the first time

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After a decade of searching, the IceCube neutrino detector in Antarctica has finally found neutrinos from within our own galaxy – but we don’t know the source of the cosmic rays that are creating them

that seem to come from within our own galaxy, but the specific sources of these neutrinos remains elusive. Generally, neutrinos form when cosmic rays, which are high-energy particles

travelling through space at nearly the speed of light, collide with other matter and create showers of fundamental particles and radiation.Voyage across the galaxy and beyond with our space newsletter every month.But where exactly these cosmic rays come from, and how they get such high energies, has long been controversial.

 

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